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So I just upgraded my cleaning/sanitizing equipment". My question do I rinse bottles with tap water after using the star san?

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Try this little experiment sometime. Put some StarSan in a bucket and whip it around such that you generate a cr@pton of foam. Then open the bucket reach in and pull out the biggest handfull you can and bring your hands together. Observe how quickly the foam dissipates to non-detectability. That's what convinced me that as long as you don't have standing fluid you're good to go. During a transfer having some foam in a carboy for example is helpful to keep oxygen from entering the head space. DFTF.

I like to add about 1 gallon of starsan into the carboy and then just lay the carboy on its side. I will turn the carboy every so often to make sure that the entire inside of the carboy gets contact time w/ the starsan. Then when I need to use the carboy, I turn the carboy upside down to empty the starsan. This way the carboy is sanitized and there's very little foam. Before doing this, I would shake up the carboy causing a ton of foam.

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Jeremy Baker

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Ok so don't rinse the star san, and rinse the PBW second question- with a bottle drain tree and bottle washing attachment do i first use the PBW, then run tap water, then run the star san?

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“Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drank, I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn’t drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, “It is better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver.

Ok so don't rinse the star san, and rinse the PBW second question- with a bottle drain tree and bottle washing attachment do i first use the PBW, then run tap water, then run the star san?

It depends. If you are starting with clean bottles, just rinse with Star-San. If you still need to get the gunk out, then PBW, rinse and then run the Star-San through. I put my empties away clean so I don't have to work so hard on bottling day.

i believe most are empty of gunk, so i ill just go with the Star San, thanks for all the input

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“Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drank, I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn’t drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, “It is better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver.

I know not to fear the foam, but I always wonder. How much foam is OK? Is there a point where I should begin to fear it?

When I empty a carboy, I can wind up with LOTS of foam left inside.

For a carboy, I try to get most of it out but don't worry if there is some still in there. The guy from Five Star said the foam actually breaks down and is beneficial to the yeast. For bottling, I let the drain on the tree but again don't worry if there is a lot of foam.

When I keg, it's actually fun to watch the huge foam snake come out of the top as I fill.